{"id":102,"date":"2020-03-16T15:40:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T15:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pippinmathur.com\/site\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:29:49","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pippinmathur.com\/site\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Courtney grew up in East Texas and passed the hot summer days reading, drawing, watching She-Ra and exploring her grandma’s farm. She doodled constantly through elementary, middle and high school but didn’t think about art as a career until a fateful art history class at The University of Texas at Austin. After transferring from Government to Studio Art, she moved to the east coast and started pursing a career in childrens\u2019 books where she could combine all of her favorite things.<\/p>\n

She now lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three kids and is the author\/illustrator of several picture books, Maya was Grumpy, Dragons Rule, Princesses Drool, Fairies Don’t Fight a<\/strong>nd Dinosaur Days<\/strong> (2025, author only, illustrated by Pauline Gregory) She has also co-written and illustrated  a picture book with her sister-in-law, Sanyukta Mathur, titled Happy Diwali!<\/strong> and illustrated It’s Holi!<\/strong> which Sanyukta wrote.<\/p>\n

Courtney also makes paper mach\u00e9 and polymer clay figures, ornaments, original acrylic paintings and more. (See shop link above)<\/p>\n

To see what she’s up to lately, follow her on Bluesky or Instagram @pippinmathur and sign up for her newsletter here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For inquiries about book illustration, please contact her agent, Jennifer Unter<\/a><\/p>\n

For other inquires, email: courtney@pippinmathur.com <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Courtney @ age 6<\/h4>\n

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At a favorite independent bookstore, Island bookstore in Duck, NC  <\/h4>\n

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  Courtney grew up in East Texas and passed the hot summer days reading, drawing, watching She-Ra and exploring her grandma’s farm. She doodled constantly through elementary, middle and high school but didn’t think about art as a career until a fateful art history class at The University of Texas at Austin. After transferring from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pippinmathur.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pippinmathur.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pippinmathur.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pippinmathur.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pippinmathur.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.pippinmathur.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1628,"href":"https:\/\/www.pippinmathur.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pippinmathur.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}